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Registries

Purpose

This page contains a list of developments that may arguably be considered metadata schema, terminology or ontology registries. Please add to it according to the guidelines described below.

Registry-like developments

At minimum, put the name of the planned development/a little descriptive text and if possible a link to further information. Other information that you may wish to add (the organisation behind the development, for example) is welcome. Any information such as project reports that might help to describe the capabilities and intended uses of software, or the perceived nature of the problem that the project intends to solve, is particularly useful.

Software

DCMI Registry
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative's (DCMI) Metadata Registry is designed to promote the discovery and reuse of exiting metadata definitions. It provides users, and applications, with an authoritative source of information about the Dublin Core element set and related vocabularies. This simplifies the discovery of terms and related definitions, and illustrates the relationship between terms.http://purl.org/dcregistry/

Risk assessment: "I have a formatted content stream; is it at risk of obsolescence?"

HILT, the high level thesaurus project
Problems relating to disparate terminology use have been an impediment to information retrieval for many years, but the growth of Web, associated heterogeneous digital repositories, and the need for distributed cross-searching within multi-scheme information environments has recently drawn the issue into sharp focus. The HILT project, which is now in phase IV, aims to research, investigate and develop pilot solutions for problems pertaining to cross-searching multi-subject scheme information environments, as well as providing a variety of other terminological searching aids.http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/

NHS metadata registry
"The National Knowledge Service Metadata Registry (NKS-MDR) is designed to promote the discovery and reuse of metadata and vocabulary definitions that will be used within the National Knowledge Service and the National Library for Health." http://schemas.library.nhs.uk/

Scottish Enterprise Standards Registry
The home of all Scottish Enterprise Information Standards - includes metadata regitry functionality but is also much wider http://schemas.scottish-enterprise.com/
Contact is Mandy.Bell@scotent.co.uk